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101 Ways to Save the Internet

Posted on January 4, 2004 by Steve Mays

Paul Boutin offers 101 Ways to Save the Internet. A few of my favaorites:

* Upgrade phone booths to Wi-Fi
* Death to fax machines. Send us an attachment instead
* Stop with the jokes
* Turn off your HTML email It makes you vulnerable to viruses – and bugs us.

Posted in Media & Culture | Tagged Early Net Culture

Questions from Pattern Recognition

Posted on December 31, 2003 by Steve Mays

What I want to ask you is
Who are you?
Where are you?
Are you dreaming?
Are you there? The way I’m here?

Pattern Recognition, page 256

Posted in Books, Quotable & Notes | Tagged Pattern Recognition, William Gibson

Apophenia

Posted on December 29, 2003 by Steve Mays

The spontaneous perception of connections and meaningfulness in unrelated things.

You can explore the concept further in Pattern Recognition.

Posted in Books | Tagged Pattern Recognition

When your heart breaks…

Posted on December 26, 2003 by Steve Mays

“When your heart breaks, you should die.” — Angels in America (HBO)

Posted in Best Scenes, Film & TV, Quotable & Notes

Instead of a view

Posted on December 26, 2003 by Steve Mays

“Memory, Agent Starling, is what I have instead of a view.” — Dr. Hannibal Lecter, Silence of the Lambs

Posted in Film & TV, Quotable & Notes

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  • “All your problems are your body's problems. All these lose their meaning the moment you realize that you may not be a mere body. You are nothing perceivable, or imaginable.” — I Am That

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